I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else and if you really work hard you might get lucky and get what you want.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer.

If you ask men why they did a good job they'll say 'I'm awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?' If you ask women why they did a good job what they'll say is someone helped them they got lucky they worked really hard.

For any of us in this room today let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in our grandmothers lived in where career choices for women were so limited.

If to live is to progress if you are lucky from foolishness to wisdom then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid which I've been lucky enough to be several times.

When I was in the war I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.